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Super 8 Sherman, Sherman
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
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Considering how much I use at home, I'm always on the hunt for an olive oil that both tastes good and is affordable. More often than not, large bottles of olive oil are either prohibitively expensive or you wind up sacrificing quality for volume. Another problem is finding a multipurpose oil because, really, who wants to have to use three different bottles for each meal?
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Holiday Inn Express Rotherham North, South Yorkshire (county)
- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 130 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
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- Meeting rooms
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- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
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- Daily housekeeping
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- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
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- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
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- Free self parking (limited)
- RV/bus/truck parking
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- Smoke-free property
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast daily
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Meeting rooms
- Conference space size (feet) - 2948
- Conference space size (meters) - 274
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- Private bathroom
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Excellent 4.4 /5 from 206 reviews
This Holiday Inn Express had been upgraded. The beds were not double but queen size, a vast improvement. They had plastic cups in the bathroom unlike some other bare bones HI Express' we have recently stayed in.
I thoroughly enjoyed my overnight stay. Very well appointed room with a choice of pillows! Included breakfast was very good with an excellent choice. Would definitely stay again if I am in the area.
Not a bad place. It's in a fairly new "mixed use" neighborhood - some industrial parks and office spaces, plus new residential developments nearby. The hotel was fine, a good place to sleep. One thing I wasn't aware of is you need to put your room key card into a slot inside the room to make the lights work. Good energy saving idea, but it took me a while to figure it out (I haven't traveled in a while!). Breakfast buffet was just adequate. The "pub" across the way was more American than British, but it was OK for a burger and a beer.
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Inspired by classic Danish modern design and given a soft outline with finely detailed cording, the Lily Loveseat is the kind of well-designed piece you'll keep for a long time. Modern doesn't have to be cold and uninviting - and it sure can be comfortable. This semi-formal loveseat delivers both an invitation to sit and a warm reception when you accept the invitation.
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- Overall: 32" h x 58" w x 35" d
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Local design, local manufacturing, local company: based out of North Carolina, Younger Furniture has been delivering American-made style, quality, and comfort since 1989. Younger's fresh sofas, chairs, loveseats, and sectionals are known for their solid construction and excellent upholstery. With an ability to produce both modern sofas and traditional furniture, Younger neatly straddles the modern/traditional divide ... without compromise. Their Avenue 62 Collection illustrates their ability to add a Mid-Century look to their oeuvre.
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A brilliant debut ... this impressive book will certainly become the definitive study of our strangest, most mysterious, king (Desmond Seward BBC History Magazine)
Stunning ... effortlessly vivid prose ... a revelation. [Penn's] focus is on the last, fear-filled decade of [Henry VII's] reign, but his sinuously coiling chapters seamlessly unfold the past as well as the present of his protagonists ... [He] has pulled off a rare feat: a brilliant and haunting evocation of the Tudor world, with irresistible echoes of the age of fear in which we now live (Helen Castor Telegraph)
[A] brilliant mash-up of gothic horror and political biography ... a tour de force: both scholarly and a pleasure to read, covering the breadth of the European political scene, while providing the details that allow us to feel intimately the terror at home (Spectator)
Remarkable ... Penn brilliantly recreates the sterile atmosphere suffocating Henry's England. His eye for time, circumstance and the telling anecdote is keen. Winter King offers us the fullest, deepest, most compelling insight into the warped psychology of the Tudor dynasty's founder to have appeared since Bacon wrote (Financial Times)
[Thomas Penn] is a superb teller of a tale, a reveller in dodgy deeds, a keen observer of the febrile, dissimulating characters of court and embassy, and a splendid limner of the great jousts and entertainments of the age ... with a sharp eye for detail and adroit use of a gifted historical imagination, ... he lets us hear the creak of oars and the scratch of pens, as well as the tubercular king fighting for every breath ... Vigorous and thoroughly enjoyable (Economist)
I feel like I've been waiting to read this book a long time ... a fluent and compelling account ... The level of detail is fascinating and beautifully judged ... I think that, for the first time, a writer has made me feel what contemporaries felt as Henry VII's reign drew to an end; the relief, the hope, the sudden buoyancy (Hilary Mantel, author of 'Wolf Hall')
Succeeds brilliantly ... [a] finely drawn portrait ... Penn's deft turn of phrase superbly re-creates the drama and personalities of the court (Tracy Borman Sunday Times)
An exceptionally stylish literary debut. Henry VII may be the most unlikely person ever to have occupied the throne of England, and his biographers have rarely conveyed just what a weird man he was. Thomas Penn does this triumphantly, and in the process manages to place his subject in a vividly realised landscape. His book should be the first port of call for anyone trying to understand England's most flagrant usurper since William the Conqueror (Diarmaid MacCulloch)
A definitive and accessible account of the reign of Henry VII that will alter our view not just of Henry, but of the country he dominated and corrupted, and of the dynasty he founded ... [Penn's] point is to show that this is not the "merrie England" of the Tudor myth, but a country forced under the rule of a new king, spied on and policed for any sign of disloyalty, and tyrannised by the use of ancient half-forgotten fines and taxes (Philippa Gregory Observer)
[Penn] achieves the remarkable feat of making the reign of Henry VII seem more interesting than that of his son. Winter King is well titled: the fingers of the first Tudor king, in Penn's account of his final years, are icy to the touch, and probe into every nook and cranny of the kingdom ... gripping and unexpected (Tom Holland Guardian)
Penn's scholarly and engrossing life of Henry VII ... gives a complex and exact sense of how power worked in early modern England (Sam Leith Spectator (Books of the Year 2012))
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Thomas Penn was born in 1974. He has a PhD in early Tudor history from Clare College, Cambridge. Winter King is his first book.
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Penn excels at re-imagining the pageantry and rituals of the court, and his descriptions of the triumphs, state entrances, coronations etc. are superb. He doesn't just quote from the sources but succeeds in placing himself there, giving us a front-row seat alongside him. He's also very good at replacing Henry within his European context: not just the marriage negotiations but also his trade alliances (e.g. the manoeuvrings to circumvent the papal alum monopoly) and his desire to establish European humanism (e.g. Erasmus, More) in his England, itself a legitimising strategy for the Tudor monarchy.
The book does a fine job of confirming why this is known as the `early modern' period with the growth of the international banking system and commodities trading. Less successful, however, for me, are some of the anti-Tudor political conspiracies: these are sometimes complicated and, inevitably, spread across time and there are points at which Penn doesn't quite succeed in making reading about them less than tortuous.
So this is thorough, detailed and precise with full sourcing and proper referencing. Penn writes elegantly and with a novelist's eye for detail at times - if you're interested in early Tudor history, the personality and reign of Henry VII, or the early life of Henry VIII then this is an excellent choice.
He was born of Royal Descent but, like many at the time, his claim to the throne was tenuous, as his Mother came from John of Gaunt's disputed relationship with Kathrine Swyford. Although he enjoyed patronage in his early days, he was exiled to France as a young man. He famously went on to win the Crown at the Battle of Bosworth (after his Step-Father, Thomas Stanley, choose to support him and not Richard III) and then married Elizabeth of York, who after the death of her brothers in the Tower, could be conceivably be considered the legitimate heir to the throne.
He remained conscious of the threats to his throne and in turn countered this by building a legacy through his children, his Sons - Arthur and Henry.... And then arranged for his oldest child to marry a daughter of Spain... The tragic Catherine of Aragon... Setting into motion events that were to change the landscape of England for ever.
What Thomas Penn has done with this book is capture the feel of the times, the uncertainty that was in England as a result of the on-going War of the Roses and the desire for peace and stability. He captures the vulnerability of King Henry and his need to consolidate what he started at Bosworth. He has capture this very very well...
If nothing else this will give you an insight into the world that Henry VIII was born into and why he had the desire for male heirs and the impact that was to have.
Well written and easy to read.
I suppose I had thought that the period following The Wars of the Roses and preceding the drama that was Henry VIII's reign would be dull. Winter King does away with that notion. Consolidating his power and fending off pretenders made Henry VII a very busy monarch.
Penn's Henry Tudor is the sullen, skulking character we might have expected, but he is also three-dimensional, showing real grief when his wife died in childbirth, and when his son Arthur, Prince of Wales, died unexpectedly.
Winter King shows the importance of Henry's reign in establishing the validity of the Tudor line and how hard Henry had to fight to maintain its legitimacy. By the time his son, Henry VIII, took the throne, there was little question of his right to succeed.
But as interesting and important as the big picture is, I found the little details most intriguing. For instance, Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort, wore reading glasses much of the time. I didn't know eyeglasses existed in 1500. But apparently only for reading, because Penn tells how Henry VII's eyesight was deteriorating and made him a menace when he indulged in his favorite pastime of hunting.
The image of Henry VII sitting in his castle counting his money like some Midas is also not far from the truth, according to Penn. Henry was deeply involved in the details of the royal finances, finding every possible way to wring more taxes from his subjects.Read more ›
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A well written book. I was never bored reading it. The prose flows nicely. Penn conveys the spirit and atmosphere of the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII. Read morePublished 4 months ago by Jet Lagged
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When we first arrived in the dark, a bellboy took some of us to our room, then we called for a lift back, as they had not given us maps (they ran out and were re-printing them), and they said they were too busy to send a golf cart around. Which would have been fine if we had a map or had been there or had any idea how to get back, but was completely inappropriate in this case.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane | Theatre reviews, news & interviews
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
The sweet smell of success proves disappointingly elusive in Sam Mendes' musical production based on Roald Dahl's story
It's all stick and no lollipop, a chocolate box stuffed with nothing but empty wrappers: what a walloping letdown this intensely anticipated musical based on Roald Dahl's perennially popular 1964 children's book turns out to be.
With songs by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman – the team behind the irresistible feelgood hit Hairspray – a book by the highly respected playwright David Greig, and direction by the Donmar Warehouse founder and Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, it ought to be a giant peach. Instead, it's as bland and sugary as cheap confectionery. And with so little to savour of Dahl's delicious treacly darkness, it's effortlessly kicked into orbit by Matilda and her sassy cohorts, singing and dancing up a storm of wit and wonder over at the West End's Cambridge Theatre and on Broadway.
Hodge's Wonka comes across as little more than avuncular and faintly world-weary
For a show that purports to be so starry-eyed over the potent magic of imagination, it's clod-hoppingly literal – and nowhere is this a more serious problem than in the dismayingly dull first act. It begins with a needless cartoon by Dahl illustrator Quentin Blake, in which we are tediously introduced to the chocolate-production process. Things hardly get any more exciting when we meet our pint-sized hero, Charlie Bucket (played at the performance I saw by Jack Costello, pictured below right) picking his way through a giant rubbish heap, courtesy of designer Mark Thompson. "How do you do?" he enquires of the dubious treasures he unearths – a single glove, a broken umbrella – before trotting off to the dismal home he shares with his cheerful but impoverished parents and his four winsomely eccentric, bed-ridden grandparents. It's tooth-rottingly sentimental.
A welcome dash of colour is delivered when Dad wheels in the erratic TV so that Charlie can follow the worldwide search for lucky Golden Ticket winners – the select few who will get the chance to enter the hallowed portal of the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory and meet the mysterious master chocolatier himself. Appearing on the over-sized set are that victim of the childhood obesity epidemic, Augustus Gloop, a lederhosen-sporting Bavarian boy and his fond Mutti, singing along with an oompah band; Veruca Salt, a blonde mini-monster in pink tutu and tights, with her long-suffering, over-indulgent tycoon father; Violet Beauregarde the chewing-gum addict, transformed here into a ghetto-fabulous, blinged-up rapper with a fame-hungry soulman dad (Paul J Medford); and, most repellant of all, Mike Teavee, a pathologically aggressive video-gaming obsessive whose pill-popping mother is, inexplicably, a beehived Sixties housewife.
It's not until the act one closing number, though, that we finally get our first proper glimpse of Douglas Hodge's Willy Wonka – and even then, we don't actually make it into the factory itself before the interval. Moustachioed and dapper in his bright top hat and tails, Hodge cuts a genial but curiously unengaging figure. Dahl's Wonka may be enigmatic, but a dramatic portrayal demands some sense of character; Hodge comes across as little more than avuncular and faintly world-weary. It's not a lot to suck on to see us through until the second half.
Happily, though, there are a few treats to come as Charlie and his doughty Grandpa Joe (Nigel Planer) potter through Wonka's secret sweetie-land. Chief among these is Jamie Harrison's puppetry, which staffs the factory with adult, full-sized Oompa-Loompas with little puppet legs. Their first entrance, singing and dancing in an eye-popping, high-kicking row poised on an industrial pipe, is the show's highlight; also hugely appealing is the shrinking of the loathsome Mike Teavee to a tiny, shrieking action-figure in Wonka's experimental teleporter, and the Nut Room, where a slightly menacing horde of bushy-tailed squirrels sorts out the wholesome kernels from the rotten, and at whose furry paws brattish Veruca meets her grisly end.
Yet still there are further disappointments. Thompson's Chocolate Room, with its minty grass, candy blossoms and chocolate waterfall rippled like brunette mermaid hair, is luridly bright yet strangely flat; Jon Driscoll's pedestrian video projections are singularly unenchanting. Wittman and Shaiman's numbers roll flavourlessly by until they merge into a single slick butterball of inconsequentiality; and even the choreography by Peter Darling – who can usually be relied upon for terpsichorean dazzle – lacks thrills and the lift-off of sheer exuberance.
The climactic flight of the Great Glass Elevator – which, oddly, is executed to the strains of "Pure Imagination" from the 1971 film version, shoehorned in here for no very obvious reason – may well be jaw-dropping; it was malfunctioning when I attended, so I can't judge. But even if it executed quadruple loop-the-loops over the heads of the audience, it's unlikely that it could have fully compensated for so much that is lacklustre in what precedes it. Perhaps affection for Dahl's story and awe at what spectacle the show offers will be enough to ensure steady business at the box office. But the sad truth is, this ain't no golden ticket.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is booking at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane till 31 May 2014
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